Hastings-on-Hudson’s Nobel Laureates

Winners have taken home the Nobel Prize for combating yellow fever, discovering the muon neutrino and other achievements.

By Ben Brody

You might not expect a suburban village of just 8,000 to have been home to five Nobel laureates, but that’s the case for Hastings-on-Hudson. And they weren’t all just commuting to nearby universities and institutes, either. The two most recent winners—both for economics—are actually Hastings High School grads. The five Hastings laureates are: